New approach for synthetic rubber for degradable tires: converting cyclopentene to polypentenamers
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2016
A team from the Texas A&M University campus in Qatar (TAMU-Qatar) and Caltech has developed a new way to make synthetic rubber; once this material is discarded, it can be easily degraded back to its chemical building blocks and reused in new tires and other products. Many of the non-degradable scrap tires get stockpiled in landfills.
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